* 1908 – Marcel-Marie Desmarais, Quebec writer, preacher and broadcaster ( d. 1994 )

* 1908 – Robert Lee Scott, Jr., American pilot ( d. 2006 )

* 1908 – Ida Crowe Pollock, English writer

* 1908 – Eve Arden, American actress ( d. 1990 )

* 1908 – Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic politician, Prime Minister of Iceland ( d. 1970 )

* 1908 – Frank Robert Miller, Canadian airman and politician ( d. 1997 )

* 1908 – Donald Bradman, Australian cricketer ( d. 2001 )

* 1908 – Lyndon B. Johnson, American politician, 36th President of the United States ( d. 1973 )

* 1908 – Kurt Wegner, German artist ( d. 1985 )

* 1908 – Helen Jacobs, American tennis player ( d. 1997 )

* 1908 – Will Lee, American actor ( d. 1982 )

* 1908 – Lajos Vajda, Hungarian painter ( d. 1941 )

* 1908 – Gene Raymond, American actor ( d. 1998 )

* 1908 – The Territorial Force ( renamed Territorial Army in 1920 ) is formed as a volunteer reserve component of the British Army.

* 1968 – Lev Davidovich Landau, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1908 )

* 1979 – Barbara Luddy, American actress ( b. 1908 )

* 2001 – Jo-Jo Moore, American baseball player ( b. 1908 )

* 2004 – Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer ( b. 1908 )

* 1908 – Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France.

* 1908 – Arthur Goldberg, American politician and jurist, 6th United States Ambassador to the United Nations ( d. 1990 )

* 1908 – Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah.

* 1908 – Ray Ventura, French bandleader ( d. 1979 )

* 1871 – Guangxu Emperor of China ( d. 1908 )

* 1908 – Manos Katrakis, Greek actor ( d. 1984 )

* 1844 – Thomas-Alfred Bernier, Canadian journalist and politician ( d. 1908 )

* Alfons Rebane ( 1908 – 1976 ), Estonian military commander

* March 8 – Alfons Rebane, Estonian military commander ( b. 1908 )

Alfons Vilhelm Robert Rebane, known simply as Alfons Rebane ( June 24, 1908 – March 8, 1976 ) was an Estonian military commander.

The Moscow Public University was founded in 1908 on the initiative of the eminent Russian patron of the arts, Alfons Leonovich Shanyavsky, and played a special role in Russian higher education from its inception.

** Gustav Ernesaks, Estonian composer and a choir conductor ( b. 1908 )

** Kristjan Palusalu, Estonian wrestler ( b. 1908 )

Gotch reigned as the World Heavyweight Champion from his first victory over Hackenschmidt in 1908 until he retired in 1913 after defeating Estonian Georg Lurich April 1, 1913, in Kansas City, Missouri.

Ants Eskola ( February 17, 1908 in modern-day Tallinn – 1989 ) was an Estonian actor and singer.

In fact, international developments have drawn attention to the term folkloristics since the beginning of the twentieth century, including the establishment of a permanent professorial chair in folkloristics at the University of Helsinki in 1908 and the creation of one department of folkloristics at the University of Tartu in 1919 and another at the Estonian Literary Museum in 1990.

On May 30, 1908, learned individuals from Tallinn and Tartu met in Tapa to agree on how the Estonian language should be written.

Gustav Ernesaks ( 12 December 1908 in Peningi, Governorate of Estonia, Russian Empire – 24 January 1993 in Tallinn, Estonia ) was an Estonian composer and a choir conductor.

There he became one of the editors for the Estonian newspaper Peterburi Teataja (" The Publisher of Saint Petersburg ") in 1908, although he resided still in Finland.

It is named after Hermann Clemenz ( 1846 – 1908 ), an Estonian player.

Baden-Powell wrote the principles of Scouting in Scouting for Boys ( London, 1908 ), based on his earlier military books, with influence and support of Frederick Russell Burnham ( Chief of Scouts in British Africa ), Ernest Thompson Seton of the Woodcraft Indians, William Alexander Smith of the Boys ' Brigade, and his publisher Pearson.

Mannerheim eventually arrived in Beijing in July 1908, where he worked on his military intelligence report.

T. E. Lawrence, who would later be known as Lawrence of Arabia, celebrated his 20th birthday at the former Grand Hôtel du Midi, Place de la Fountain, on August 16, 1908, whilst tracing the route of Richard I of England, on a cycling tour of France in preparation for his thesis: The Influence of the crusades on the European military architecture at the end of the XIIth century.

* John Wellesley Thomas ( 1822 – 1908 ), British military officer

* March 20-Josef Wagner, military bandmaster and composer ( d. 1908 )

Juan Vicente Gómez Chacón ( 24 July 1857 – 17 December 1935 ) was a military general and de facto ruler of Venezuela from 1908 until his death in 1935.

In 1893 the Swiss cutlery company Paul Boéchat & Cie, which later became Wenger, received its first contract from the Swiss military to produce model 1890 knives ; the two companies split the contract for provision of the knives from 1908 until Victorinox acquired Wenger in 2005.

In 1908 the British government had recognised that the use of aircraft for military and naval purposes should be investigated.

In 1908, he also contrived a bold and audacious military venture in China called the “ Red Dragon Plan ” that called for organizing a revolutionary conspiracy to conquer the two southern Kwang provinces.

In 1908, after a term in the military working as a regimental librarian, he met Sonia Terk, who he later married, though at the time she was married to a German art dealer who she would soon divorce.

In 1908 he helped Orville build and prepare the " military Flyer " for demonstration to the U. S. Army at Fort Myer, Virginia.

He became the first Canadian-born officer to command Canada's military in 1908, and he retired in 1910.

The Complex is located in an area that was used by the United States military beginning in 1908, as a training camp for the Puerto Rican Regiment of Infantry that saw action in World War I and World War II.

) The Army Nurse Corps ( all female until 1955 ) was founded in 1901, and the Navy Nurse Corps ( all female until 1964 ) was founded in 1908, and nurses in both served overseas at military hospitals during the war.

In the aftermath of the Russian Revolution of 1905 he was arrested in 1907 for the attempted murder of a factory director in Libau, but was later acquitted by the Riga military court in 1908.

In 1908, having invented a military rangefinder and convinced Zeiss to manufacture it, Wild moved to the city of Jena and became head of the new Zeiss branch responsible for surveying instruments, GEO.

In 1908, the Young Turk Revolution broke out in Salonica, and the young Enver quickly became one of its military leaders.

The El Morro or Port San Juan Light was built atop the castillo in 1843, but in 1908, it was replaced by the US military with the current lighthouse.

In 1908, he became a cadet in a military school.

He served as secretary for civil and military affairs of Vermont from 1900 to 1902, and as attorney general of Vermont from 1900 to 1902 and again from 1908 to 1912.

His long list of honorary military posts included: honorary colonel of the 2nd London Corps from 24 September 1887, honorary colonel of the 5th Battalion, the Sherwood Foresters ( Derbyshire Regiment ) from 29 December 1888, honorary colonel of the 1st Newcastle upon Tyne ( Western Division ), Royal Artillery from 18 April 1894, honorary colonel of the Waterford Artillery ( Southern Division ) from 4 March 1896, colonel-commandant of the Royal Artillery from 7 October 1896, honorary colonel of the 3rd Battalion, the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment from 1 January 1898, honorary colonel of the City of London Imperial Volunteers from 10 March 1900, honorary colonel of the 3rd Volunteer Battalion, the Gloucestershire Regiment from 5 September 1900, colonel of the Irish Guards from 17 October 1900, honorary colonel of the 2nd Hampshire ( Southern Division ), Royal Garrison Artillery from 15 August 1901, honorary colonel of the 3rd ( Dundee Highland ) Volunteer Battalion, the Black Watch ( Royal Highlanders ) from 19 September 1903, honorary colonel of the North Somerset Yeomanry from 1 April 1908, honorary colonel of the 6th Battalion, the City of London ( Rifles ') Regiment from 1 April 1908, honorary colonel of the 1st Wessex Brigade from 1 April 1908, honorary colonel of 6th Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment from 1 April 1908, honorary colonel of The Waterford Royal Field Reserve Artillery from 2 August 1908 and honorary colonel of 1st ( Hull ) Battalion, The East Yorkshire Regiment from 11 November 1914 ( three days before his death ).